Tiling Checker

A texture can look fine on its own and fall apart the moment it repeats. A slightly brighter edge turns into a grid line across the whole wall, and one dark blob turns into a pattern you cannot stop seeing.

This shows the texture tiled 3x3 so both problems are visible at once. The half-offset view shifts everything by half a tile, which moves the edges into the middle of the screen where you actually notice them. Seam highlighting marks the tile borders so you can tell a real break from a feature that happens to sit near one.

The seams are obvious. How do I fix them?

Run the texture through Seamless Maker, which blends the edges together, then check it here again.

It tiles cleanly but still looks repetitive.

Those are two different problems. Even a perfectly seamless texture gives away the grid if it has one high contrast feature. Tone that feature down, or break the repetition up in the shader.

Related: Seamless Maker · Material Preview · Levels

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Edge Padding: Bleed UV island colors outward into empty space so textures stop showing dark seams at lower mip levels. Runs in your browser.

ORM Packer: Combine ambient occlusion, roughness and metallic maps into a single packed RGBA texture, with control over which map goes in which channel.

Material Preview: Preview albedo, normal and ORM maps together on a lit sphere or cube, without exporting into Unreal or Unity to check how a material looks.

Height to Normal: Convert a height, bump or displacement map into a tangent space normal map, with adjustable strength and a choice of DirectX or OpenGL output.

Combine Normals: Layer a detail normal map over a base one and keep the detail from both, instead of averaging them into something flatter than either.

Normal Strength: Scale how much a normal map bends the light, without rebaking it. Keeps the map valid instead of breaking it the way a contrast slider would.

Levels: Set the black point, white point, midtones and inversion of a roughness, AO, height or mask texture, with a live preview.

Flip Green: Invert the green channel of a normal map to switch it between DirectX and OpenGL, which fixes normals that light inside out.

Rough ↔ Gloss: Convert a roughness map to glossiness or smoothness and back, for assets moving between engines that expect one or the other.

Renormalize: Restore a normal map after resizing, blurring or compression has weakened it, without changing which way any of it points.

Material from Photo: Generate albedo, height, normal, roughness and AO maps from a single photo, as a starting point you then tune.

Seamless Maker: Turn a photo or texture into one that repeats cleanly, by shifting it by half and blending the mismatched edges away.

AO & Curvature: Get ambient occlusion, curvature and cavity maps out of a normal map, with no high-poly mesh and no baker, for edge wear and dirt masks.

Channel Split: Split a packed ORM, RMA or mask texture back into one grayscale map per channel, exported individually or as a zip.